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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:35 PM

Etiquette Rule #1 - Don't be a Sycophant

Today's edition of the Redmond Channel Partner newsletter links to a piece titled Minding Your Microsoft Manners , which is an interview with some companies who advise Microsoft partners on how to work with Microsoft. As I was reading it, I thought it
Posted by Rob Caron | 4 Comments
Friday, June 15, 2007 2:27 PM

eScrum Update: ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Version Conflicts

For those who have experienced any problems getting eScrum ( Now Available: Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0 ) installed and working due to ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit version conflicts: Since you can't download previous versions of the ASP.NET AJAX Control
Posted by Rob Caron | 7 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:30 PM

Now Available: Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0

If you're looking for another Scrum template to try with Team Foundation Server, consider using eScrum , which is an implementation of Scrum that's used internally by some teams within Microsoft: eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool
Posted by Rob Caron | 16 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:53 AM

The Greatest Story Never Told

While reading the comments on Sam Gentile 's post, What's Great about Being a Microsoft Developer , I followed a link to a post by Martin Plante that ended with: So for me, the "Microsoft Way" is only a street name , as there is no Microsoft Way, no real
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:57 AM

Discuss Beta 1 with the Team System Team

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group on Friday, April 27th from 10:00 - 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team System. In addition, discuss what's new in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta
Posted by Rob Caron | 0 Comments
Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:36 PM

1 KB Files for Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1

For those are downloading Visual Studio code name "Orcas" Beta 1 files from Microsoft Downloads, you may have seen what appears to be a misprint: I can assure you that the Team Foundation Server with Team Suite VPC is much larger than 9 KB total and that
Posted by Rob Caron | 4 Comments
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:15 AM

Déjà Vu All Over Again

About a month ago I wrote a post titled, Groundhog Day at MSDN . In that post I talked about cleaning up the content mess on MSDN and I likened it to organizing things at home. This weekend I started reading The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda . In Law
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:19 AM

The Expense of Failed Knowledge Transfer

J.D. Meier posted a great comment to my recent post on Community Facilitates Knowledge Transfer (emphasis mine): "Shipping the knowledge is just as important as shipping the product" ... YES! ... and a product without knowledge is support waiting to happen
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:28 PM

Community Facilitates Knowledge Transfer

Back in August 2005, I wrote a blog post in which I tried to answer the question, What is Community? Here's an excerpt from that post: The greatest service a product team can do for its community is to impart as much of their knowledge of the product
Posted by Rob Caron | 4 Comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:06 PM

Groundhog Day at MSDN

Last month, my wife and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. It's not romantic, but one of the topics of conversation this time of year is our constant struggle with clutter at home, and how much we've accumulated over the years. Eighteen years
Posted by Rob Caron | 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:52 PM

Sam Gazitt on Planning Tech•Ed

We're all in! I can now proclaim that 100% of my team is blogging. That's right, both of us have blogs. Sam Gazitt launched his blog today, and his first order of business is to blog about his number one job - planning a great Tech•Ed for developers.
Posted by Rob Caron | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:43 AM

My Q&A with Redmond Developer News

For those who are interested, an interview I did with Doug Barney of Redmond Developer News is now live on their Web site, and it also appears in the January issue of the publication. The Man Behind the Message Microsoft's Rob Caron spends his days (and
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:05 AM

Orcas Feature Specs Online

As noted in Brian Harry's blog ( More Transparency ), we published a bunch of the Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" up on MSDN. These are the actual feature specifications, not glossy versions of them. I'm happy to tell
Posted by Rob Caron | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:01 AM

Interview with Scott Swigart on MSDN Wiki for Dr. Dobb's Journal

Recently, Scott Swigart interviewed Molly Bostic (MSDN Wiki PM) and I about MSDN Wiki for Dr. Dobb's Journal . The interview is now available online ( Dr. Dobb's | MSDN Wiki: What's Up? | November 14, 2006 ). In it you'll learn about more about MSDN Wiki's
Posted by Rob Caron | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:04 PM

FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams

A very cool video on Channel 9 ( FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams ) with Team System evangelist, Brian Keller , talking with Mary Czerwinski & Greg Smith on a project from Microsoft Research (celebrating its 15th
Posted by Rob Caron | 0 Comments
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